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Monstrosity of the Lake

· Legendary Creature — Kraken · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

102

Decks Running

In Decks

486

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Monstrosity of the Lake

Legendary Creature — Kraken

When Monstrosity of the Lake enters, you may pay {5}

. If you do, tap all creatures your opponents control, then put a stun counter on each of those creatures. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.) Islandcycling {2}

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, Discard this card: Search your library for an Island card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

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Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Rare · Illustrated by Ben Wootten

Final zone distribution

41 instances

24.4%

Battlefield

43.9%

Graveyard

7.3%

Exile

24.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 34 decks
2 Kiora, Sovereign of the Deep 8 decks
3 Kenessos, Priest of Thassa 5 decks
4 Sauron, the Dark Lord 4 decks
5 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 2 decks
6 Marvo, Deep Operative 2 decks
7 The Watcher in the Water 2 decks
8 Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists 1 decks
9 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy 1 decks
10 Omnath, Locus of All 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

102 brought · 65 players

Brought to game

102

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

≥ -3.4pp

Players who cast this card win 38% of the time (n=15) , vs 18% when it never left the library (n=50).

Observed gap +20.3pp; 95% confidence interval -3.4pp to +44.0pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

18 of 100 times cast 18%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.